--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote:
> >
> > > Now ask yourself, is this woman all that different
> > > from the people you've heard talking about the
> > > supposed Maharishi Effect,
> >
> > Dear Turq,
> >
> > Yes. Generally different. Large differences: 1) the
> > science and 2) the cultivated experience of the Unified
> > Field in practice. Except for some few mood-maker TM nuts
> > who might look and sound like the Taliban.
> >
> > Love,
> > -Buck
>
> Color me speechless.
>
> Even given the put-on nature of the "Buck revelations,"
> I find it difficult to believe that any intelligent
> human being can believe such things. This woman clearly
> believes that because she and others just as "special"
> as she is got down on their knees and prayed to God to
> do something to bring faith to those poor, deluded
> atheists, God chose to smite Japan with a 9.0 earth-
> quake, kill (eventually, when all the bodies are found)
> 10,000 or more of them outright, and then possibly
> condemn hundreds of thousands of others to a slow death
> from radiation poisoning. She honestly sees this as
> "Something good is happening."
>
> On the other hand, the "highly evolved" believers in
> the Maharishi Effect believe that because they trudge
> to a central location twice a day and bounce on their
> butts and call it "flying" (or more accurately, catch
> up on sleep and *still* call it "flying") that the
> Laws Of Nature are so moved by their sacrifice and
> their belief that the world is more at peace and more
> in tune with those "Laws" every day. And they point to
> laughable exercises in "science" to "prove" this belief
> true, the exact same way that this woman could (and
> probably would) say, "What are you *talking* about?
> *Of course* God heard our prayers and smote the shit
> out of Japan. We prayed, and God responded with the
> earthquake. You can't ignore the *facts*!"
>
> What I see in both cases is one shitload of ego and
> Confirmation Bias, spelled with a capital "C" for Cult.
> Not to mention an *amazing* lack of compassion, that
> allows both sets of believers to look at something
> like Katrina or the Japan disaster and see nothing
> other than, "Something good is happening."
>
> But whatever floats yer boat, "Buck." If you can
> stand to look at yourself in the mirror, and see
> someone "special," so be it. I see "Taliban" in
> you (or at the very least in the things you write)
> just as much as I see it in this poor, deluded
> woman.
>
> I honestly don't know how anyone -- on this forum
> or in Fairfield -- can honestly make a case for the
> "Maharishi Effect" being anything but a huge pile
> of bullshit at this point. I find it almost beyond
> belief that anyone would even bother to try.
>
> But that's probably because I'm an atheist. I feel
> some compassion for the Japanese people because God
> was probably aiming at me and hit Japan by mistake. :-)
Let's hope he's more accurate next time, eh?
I don't think any fair-minded person would make a connection between this crazy
young woman and the advocates of ME. I am not seeing any TM folks filled with
joy about the earthquake.
>
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I don't hate the Japanese people...
> > > > I am not inventing a God that hates Japan...
> > > >
> > > > It's just that some of us, like to have a reason,
> > > > Why things happen as they do..
> > >
> > > Watch this:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zDl0X_awwjU
> > >
> > > Now ask yourself, is this woman all that different
> > > from the people you've heard talking about the
> > > supposed Maharishi Effect, and how them bouncing on
> > > their butts is causing world peace, with the occasional
> > > bad sidebar "normalization" like Katrina along the way,
> > > of course?
> > >
> > > People like this are the best argument for the non-
> > > existence of God. If there really was an all-powerful
> > > God who could smite the shit out of things and people,
> > > why would He allow people like this to live, and to
> > > attribute stuff to Him the way this crazy person does?
> > > Seems to me they'd be the first ones in line for a
> > > lightning bolt.
> > >
> >
>
